Actually, thank you, llaffer. I ended up finding a real copy of the game that was way cheaper than expected. I only pirated them in the first place because I thought they would be overpriced with their age. I've gone and bought the game now and apologize for the violation.

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Hey guys, so I have Dios Mios v2.6 running on my Wii.
It plays Wii games perfectly fine, and GC games fine with disc. However my Wiis disc drive is burnt out...
Sooo what happens when I launch the GC games from either of GX or CFG, is that the Dios Mios logo will show up, but will not boot past that.
The first time I tried playing a GC game, after correctly formatting my harddrive and arranging the game isos in the proper folders etc, it showed the dios mios logo and i waited a bit, then I remembered reading online the discs being in helping.. so as soon as the disc (GC disc, Melee) touched my Wiis disc slot, F-Zero GX booted up past the dios mios logo and I was able to play it fine [Sidenote: When I press the power off button, it freezes completely, and I can only power down the Wii by holding the power button down for 3 seconds,not sure if this is an issue or is par for the course.. Also sometimes it will power down my Wii completely whenI try to launch a GC game.]. Now though, when i enter the disc, it will have trouble reading it (on account of my drive being completely fried/scratched/whatever it is) so sometimes it takes a while to proceed past the logo, other times ill keep reinserting the disc hoping it will eventually work..
Obviously that is time consuming and slightly frustrating, but I cant seem to find any indication of how I would boot up the games without the disc inside needing to be read (what what Ive seen online, F-Zero GX works fine with no disc) sidenote: I also have Baten Kaitos 1 and Origins, Tales of Symphonia and Fire Emblem Path of Radiance.
If I turn on the No Disc + option it shows a message saying this only works in 2.2 or something of that sort, so the option will be ignored.. then the dios mios screen will load, and not proceed further.

Im looking for some way to circumvent the CD being required...
Will it work with Dios Mios 2.2? Where canI find 2.2 (the official page only has dls for the latest version, 2.6)
Installing any other version of Dios Mios, or any other Mios in general will simply overwrite the existing one right?

Also I have another Wii, which is not softmodded, (This one is my cousins, but has a broken power button, and the ac adaptor plug in the back is broken as well somehow) but it has a disc drive that is not burnt, I could swap the 2, but I would need pointer, and Im scared that my Wii will also burn that one (I actually got my drive replaced once, but it burnt through that in about a year, it slowly slowly started to lose functionality, first with a few specific games in certain areas, then all the time, then errors as soon as you try to put the disc in the Wii, to no functionality at all (besides recognizing the GC game the first few times I placedit in the Wii.. The drive issues actually started, about a year after I got my wii hardmodded with a mod-chip (biggest mistake ever in hindsight)..
Any guidance would be appreciated, I just want to be able to play my games :P. Thanks guys.

Yes, try DIOS MIOS v2.2 update 2 and older versions of USB Loaders like CFG Loader r48, GX r1198, and DM Booter because all the latest DM 2.3+ and latest USB Loaders verify the disc drive for the NODISC patching to work, with DM 2.2 update 2 you could put NODISC to ON and it will not verify the disc drive so it will work with the broken disc drive. Just Google Dios Mios 2.2, make sure you have priiloader install before you install any wad.
GX r1198, Added DML 2.2+ new NoDisc support. r1198:R1198_IOS222-249-250.7z
Yes, installing any other version of Dios Mios will overwrite the existing one.

Spoiler

2.3 (2012-09-24)

Fixed creating NMM save file folders in FST mode

Fixed CardFindEntryByName which incorrectly compared file names

Added a hack for Phantasy Star Online 1&2 version 1.0

GCLoader improvements that include warning the user if an incorrect CONFIG_VERSION is used

Hardcoded the only worthy DVDGetDriveStatus patching, so once again the NODISC cfg doesn't do anything

2.2 (2012-07-20)

Added a new DVDLowRead pattern (fixes Luigi's Mansion USA and maybe other games)

Made the DVDGetDriveStatus patch optional via a config (DML_CFG_NODISC) since it broke some games (fixes Prince of Persia:Sands of Time, Goblin Commander, King Kong, ...)

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Are there any settings in USB Loader GX that allow/prohibit the Dios Mios reset/power off button combo commands?

Reset/Power off button commands not workingHello
I am running Dios Mios 2.6 and USB Loader GX r1201
All works great except for the reset/power off button combos when in gamecube games. Nothing happens when I use them.
Any ideas?

Hey, thanks for the reply.
I installed 2.2, not sure if it was update 2 or not: this is where I dl'd DM from (OUTSIDELINK REMOVED)
It seems to require disc, the popup saying that no disc + setting only works in 2.2, and will be ignored still came up...

The wad installation seemed to work fine, Ill try installing again, and I guess at this point it must be the loader version causing issues as well, I tried only replacing DM 2.6
So for replacing the loader version, do I simply replace the boot.dol file in my sd card/apps folder for the appropriate loader? Ill try that out soon, let you know how it goes. Thanks again

Hey, thanks for the reply.
I installed 2.2, not sure if it was update 2 or not: this is where I dl'd DM from (OUTSIDE LINK REMOVED)
It seems to require disc, the popup saying that no disc + setting only works in 2.2, and will be ignored still came up...

The wad installation seemed to work fine, Ill try installing again, and I guess at this point it must be the loader version causing issues as well, I tried only replacing DM 2.6
So for replacing the loader version, do I simply replace the boot.dol file in my sd card/apps folder for the appropriate loader? Ill try that out soon, let you know how it goes. Thanks again

Any particular reason you didn't get Dios Mios from the link(s) in post 1 of this guide?